DYAD


Meaning of DYAD in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈdī-ˌad, -əd ]

noun

Etymology: Late Latin dyad-, dyas, from Greek, from dyo

Date: 1675

1. : pair ; specifically : two individuals (as husband and wife) maintaining a sociologically significant relationship

2. : a meiotic chromosome after separation of the two homologous members of a tetrad

3. : a mathematical operator indicated by writing the symbols of two vectors without a dot or cross between (as AB)

• dy·ad·ic dī-ˈa-dik adjective

• dy·ad·i·cal·ly -di-k(ə-)lē adverb

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